Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Zoo City


The pop energy of vintage cyberpunk brought to the tropes of Urban Fantasy. Urban fiction is my preferred choice, but urban fantasy with its use of mythic themes and gritty modern life rarely works for me (too wish fulfillment or something), but author’s pop sense, bloody South African noir, third world angst, and wit, redeems this tired form.

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